On Saturday 12 April 2008 08:07:12 pm Rui Martins wrote:
I'm not totally happy with my openSUSE 10.3 performance. It's not too fast (the same was with Ubuntu and Fedora). I think that are two ways: the first it's related to Gnome (probably high to my PC - P4, 512mb ram, 64mb video memory (dedicated), 60gb HD - or a kernel problem.
Could you advice me please?
I had for a while computer with Athlon XP, 512 MB RAM, nvidia video card with 64 MB and 80 MB HD. The RAM was never added as at that time I used mostly web applications, OpenOffice, GIMP and memory usage was always below 512 MB, though, more memory is always good idea. Where I have seen improvements was new faster HD and newer graphic card with 256 MB RAM. I added another 80 GB HD that was 2 times faster measured with program 'hdparm'. This brought faster loading of programs. The video card was surprise, as I considered 64 MB on old one as too much for my computer usage, but new one with 256 MB made machine to switch windows and desktops very fast without flicker. Than there is always software side. You probably should run command 'top' in terminal to see is there any application that is using CPU too much. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org